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To understand the harm drugs can cause, we must consider two aspects: the risk to an individual, and the damage to society as a whole. If you want to compare two drugs, can you know which drug is worse? What if we could somehow measure the danger? That is what a 2010 UK paper by The Lancet tried to do.
Should you base your opinion on public perception, you would assume that marijuana would place much higher than alcohol. However, this is not the case, as The Lancet’s study shows that marijuana is proven to be a less harmful substance than alcohol.